Lies Lies and More Lies

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   Willowarborposted 5 months ago

   CPAC Lie-A-Palooza
   
   More election BS
   In a Saturday speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump correctly noted that he earned 77 million votes in 2024 — then falsely said his vote total was “actually much more than that,” since unspecified people “cheated like hell.”. 
   
   Gaza
   Trump touted the Hamas release of six hostages from Gaza on Saturday, saying, “We got six more back.” But he then falsely claimed, “Biden got none back, by the way, just so you understand: none, zero.”.   it’s a fact that 105 hostages were released by Hamas during a  2023 truce brokered in part by the Biden.
   
   Poll fantasy
   Trump repeated a false claim he made on Friday, saying his “poll numbers” are the highest “that any Republican president has ever had.” He didn’t specify what numbers he was referring to, but his approval rating has been in the 40s and 50s in major recent polls, not even close to the best of all time for a Republican president. George W. Bush hit 92% shortly after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.   He also lied saying that they were polls that put his approval rating at 71%....
   
   Aid To Ukraine
   Trump repeated a false claim he made earlier in the week and many times prior, saying that Europe has given Ukraine just $100 billion in aid while the United States has given Ukraine $350 billion. 
   
   According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that closely tracks wartime aid to Ukraine, the European Union and individual European countries had collectively committed far more total wartime military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine through December (about $258 billion) than the US had committed (about $124 billion).
   
   Autism
   The prevalence of autism 15 years ago: Trump again grossly exaggerated the increase over the past two decades in the prevalence of autism among children — correctly saying it is now 1 in 36 but falsely saying that, 15 years ago, it was in the “vicinity” of 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000. In fact, public statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the known prevalence in 2010 was 1 in 68 children, not even close to Trump’s figures.
   
   Why Lie About This?
   Panama Canal deaths: Trump repeated his false claim that “38,000 people died, from our country, building the Panama Canal.” That figure, too, is not even close to accurate, experts on the canal’s construction say. While the century-old records are imprecise, they show about 5,600 people died during the canal’s American construction phase
   
   To be continued.

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      Credence2posted 5 months agoin reply to this

      More election BS
      In a Saturday speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump correctly noted that he earned 77 million votes in 2024 — then falsely said his vote total was “actually much more than that,” since unspecified people “cheated like hell.”. 
      
      Which he does bother to prove or substantiate.
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      Gaza and Poll fantasy:
      
      Trump does not care about the accuracy of his statements as his lemmings generally do not hear and listen well.
      
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      Aid to the Ukraine
      
      Ukraine is a classic Trump stab in the back toward them and our Western European democratic allies. Who is ever willing to call Trump out on his lies, are they all so taken by this man like a school girl with a crush?
      
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      Autism
      
      As if he is qualified to open his mouth about anything of significance?
      These statistics are news to me, I learn something new everyday.
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      Why lie about this:
      
      To gather outrage over what should have been "our canal". How many of those deaths were Americans? "
      
      So how about the rest of the story?
      
      "More than three-fourths of the 5,609 people who died between 1903 and 1914 building the canal were from the Caribbean, according to Ed Gresser, global trade Vice President for the D.C.-based Progressive Policy Institute. Most workers died of yellow fever, malaria, landslides and workplace accidents, Gresser's research"
      
      Indeed, only 300 or so U.S.-born workers died during the canal's construction, according to Mathew Parker, the author of Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal.

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   Willowarborposted 5 months ago

   The US trade deficit with China:
   
   Trump repeated his false claim that the US trade deficit with China was over $1 trillion last year under Biden. The last available full-year figure for the goods and services deficit with China, for 2023, was about $252 billion — lower than in any year of Trump’s presidency. While the 2024 goods and services deficit scheduled to be revealed in March might end up slightly higher than the 2023 figure, goods-only trade data shows it will be nowhere close to $1 trillion.
   
   Harris’ border role:
   Trump repeated his false claim that Harris was the Biden administration’s “border czar.” She wasn’t; the Biden White House always emphasized the label was inaccurate and that Harris was never in charge of border security. In reality, Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the US.
   
   Tariffs and wealth:
   Promoting the idea of tariffs on foreign imports, Trump repeated his false claim that the “richest” period for the US was a high-tariff era from 1870 to 1913. The US is far richer today than it was back then; per capita gross domestic product is now many times higher.
   
   Please, feel free to add daily lies... If you have a problem with any  source, do your own fact checking and refute it.  "Bias"  or "TDS". Does not make a logical argument, sorry.
   
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/politics … inar_yahoo

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   Willowarborposted 5 months ago

   Lie?  Just doesn't remember? Dementia? Just thinks magas won't remember? 
   
   Trump responding to a question on Mexico and Canada: "I look at some of these agreements and I say who would ever sign a thing like this. The tariffs will go forward, yes. We'll make up a lot of territory. Our country will be liquid and rich again.".
   
   Are you freaking kidding me?
   
   He was literally president when he signed the USMCA act (The replacement for NAFTA).
   
   
   
   https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1894137438815080722

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   Willowarborposted 5 months ago

   He is daily repeating this one...
   
   "The United States has put up far more aid for Ukraine than any other nation, hundreds of billions of dollars," Trump said. "We've spent more than $300 billion, and Europe has spent about $100 billion. That's a big difference."
   
   Government resources place the amount of aid appropriated by Congress for Ukraine since the war began in 2022 at $174 billion.
   
   The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research group based in Germany that tracks support from foreign governments toward Ukraine found European nations have all together allocated around $138 billion to Ukraine.
   
   Lying or misleading?
   
   https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-ch … =119167409

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   Willowarborposted 5 months ago

   RFK JR lies...
   
   "We are watching it,' the Health and Human Services Secretary told reporters at President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. 'There are about 20 people hospitalized, mainly for quarantine.'
   
   BUT...
   Dr. Lara Johnson at Covenant contested that characterization. “We don't hospitalize patients for quarantine purposes,”
   
   I am so sick of these liars.

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   Willowarborposted 5 months ago

   During a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on 27 February, Trump was asked by a BBC correspondent whether he still considered Zelenskyy a dictator...
   
   Q: Do you still think that Mr. Zelenskyy is a dictator?"
   
   President Trump: "Did I say that? I can't believe I said that."
   
   He looked really confused but he does lie just as easily as he breathes...
   
   Dementia? Just outright lying?
   
   This guy is just unreal.
   
   https://x.com/atrupar/status/1895187428521971969
   
   https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house … at/5155152
   
   https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/27/ … -dictator/
   
   Reported by many outlets.

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